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8 février 2015

Princeton Review Takes Further Action Against UMKC

HomeThe Princeton Review announced Monday that it is taking additional action against the University of Missouri at Kansas City, in the wake of the release of an audit Friday that confirmed that the business school at the university had provided false information for ratingsRead more...

8 février 2015

'This Week': Report on the Credit Hour / Adjunct Activism

HomeOn a new edition of This Week, Inside Higher Ed's free news podcast, Elena Silva of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Western Washington University's Johann Neem join Inside Higher Ed's Scott Jaschik and This Week moderator Casey Green to discuss the foundation's new report on the continued viability of the credit hour in higher education. Read more...

8 février 2015

Too Many Tests for One Day

HomeMany testing centers in the Northeast canceled the Jan. 24 SAT because of a blizzard in the region, and the College Board rescheduled those test takers for Feb. 7. One problem is that some of those test takers were already spoken for on Feb. 7 -- as that's a national ACT test day. Read more...

8 février 2015

Inside Look

HomeBy Chanon Adsanatham. Last fall, as I was finishing my doctorate and applying to tenure-track jobs outside my institution, I served on a search committee for assistant professor openings at my doctoral institution in my areas of study with my dissertation mentors. All of whom are senior scholars. Although I could have declined the service, I recognized that being on the committee would help me gain insights that could improve my own job search. Read more...

8 février 2015

When Your Job Is Eliminated

HomeBy Mandi Stewart. During the fall, my position as transfer admissions representative keeps me out of the office two to three days a week. This keeps me pretty out of the loop when it comes to things happening on campus. I do my best to stay as connected as possible, but when you are out of the office more days than you are in, that can get tricky. Read more...

8 février 2015

Interviewing With Administrators

HomeBy Melissa Dennihy. In previous essays, I discussed how to interview and how to give a teaching demo. If you’ve made it past those steps, you may find that your final stop on the way to landing a job is an interview with an administrator such as the campus president or a dean. Read more...

8 février 2015

Cautions on E-books

HomeBy Daniel Goldstein. According to academic libraries, there’s a just-over-the-horizon golden age in which “you always have whatever scholarship you need access to, at any time and wherever you are.” This quote comes from my library’s “welcome” page, but it could as easily come from many American university libraries. Read more...

8 février 2015

Roles and Responsibilities

HomeBy Michael Roth. I remember well the meeting with a senior faculty leader. It was early in my Wesleyan University presidency, and I was excited about the many things I hoped to see accomplished. We were talking about the objectives for the year that the administration would be presenting to the board of trustees, and I asked what her goals were. Read more...

8 février 2015

The Big Ten

HomeBy Scott McLemee. As of this week, Intellectual Affairs has been running for 10 years, which is nearly as long as Inside Higher Ed itself has been around. My title when it all began was Essayist at Large, as in fact it still is: I can’t imagine a nicer euphemism for being, in effect, a perpetual student -- and somehow making a job of it to boot. Read more...

8 février 2015

#libedunbound, or 'Forbidding Mourning'

HomeBy Eva Badowska. As Victor E. Ferrall Jr. offered a valediction for the liberal arts here, declaring them “over the brink,” colleagues at the recent Association of American Colleges and Universities conference in Washington, D.C., were abuzz designing its future: #libedunboundRead more...

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